“Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes.”
“The Scriven men wore stack-heeled boots and pearl-studded evening coats; the ladies in their vast skirts looked like mythical creatures, half woman, half sofa.”
“Diana wore a men's bowler with the intials H. W. S. sewn into the lining and an old French army coat.”
“...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, "Land lies there.”
“She wore her sadness on the outside, like a heavy winter coat.”
“As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.”